Bending & Scrollwork...

[yorkiepap]

Hey guys,
I posted a couple of the bending & scroll units I made & wanted to show some easy projects to do. These brackets were for a customer who had a fabulous patio with a stone base table with marble top. The top was 1" thick & had a 12" overhand on the radius & the customer needed some bracing to avoid breaking. I made angle braces with 24"L x 3/16"T X 1.5"W and milled a 1"L X 1/4" slot at the bottom for the stone mason to have a bit of manuevering room vertically. The scrolls were 1.5"W X 1/8"T. These would be attached by the mason to drill the holes in the stone & set in the bolt inserts as I don't do stone work or wanted the responsibility of cracking the stone. The top of the brackets would have a thick cushion adhesive used by masons to attach & provide a solid attachment. There are (5) as that was all that was needed for the radius with 2' spacing. I painted them flat black to match the customers' patio furniture.

Denny

[hddm3]

You do great work.

[Brazos]

[tom37]

Using this type of jig. About how many times did you move your piece to make this nice of a bend? They look very consistent. My wife loves iron furniture, so I'm trying to think ahead and plan my attack. I want to make her a hall table and then maybe think about a bed frame and headboard.

Thanks Tom

[yorkiepap]

Hey Tom,
The first piece I do to get the dia. of the bend usually takes 6-8 positioning moves to get the exact size I want. Once I have the correct dia., it only takes 3-4 moves per scroll to repeat the same size for the following pieces. Once you do a couple, it is quite easy.

Denny

[tom37]

Thanks Denny,

I appreciate the response greatly. In your opinion, for a hall table or even a headboard and bedside tables. Which would work better for ease of bending and also appearance? CR or HR? I am thinking that probably 1/2" square and smaller for the table. And the headboard with 2" or 3" tube for the side uprights and then maybe a little 3/4" and smaller for the decorations.

I haven't found many samples to look at yet, I want to keep it crisp and clean yet unique enough for someone to say WOW I've never seen any thing like that.

Tom